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Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance
It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...
Wild Cam: Road underpass doesn’t trap small prey
Tunnels designed to help wildlife pass safely under major highways do not appear to trap small animals in Quebec, as some researchers had speculated. While overpasses or underpasses built to...
Wild Cam: Herring gulls steal food from hard-working puffins
The surrounding crowd was raucous, and the smell was even worse. But Kaylee Busniuk weathered the distractions like a champ, announcing the unfolding action in a detailed play-by-play. Just as...
Wild Cam: Island spotted skunks may need protection
Ellie Bolas has been sprayed by skunks more times than she can remember — several times right in her face. But the experiences haven’t dissuaded her in her mission to...
Wild Cam: Shrub expansion draws moose northward
Jiake Zhou and three of his colleagues traveled 16 days on inflatable rubber boats in the northern Alaskan wilderness without seeing any other human, with nothing but a few guns...
Wild Cam: Predators stress mountain goats
Frederic Dulude-de Broin sat on top of a mountain in the Canadian Rockies with a telescope, waiting above the forested valleys for mountain goats on the alpine peaks to take...
Wild Cam: Wombats face grim outlook in hotter, drier climate
It’s a tale of two wombats. Down to fewer than 200 individuals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of...
Wild Cam: Human activity blocks African wild dog dispersal
Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers set out on a vast multi-country study...
Wild Cam: Gray hawks benefit from waterway conservation
Riparian conservation in otherwise arid environments could help a raptor that was rarely found north of the Mexican border in previous decades to expand into the American Southwest. New research...
Wild Cam: Snakes suffer as chytrid wipes out frogs
A fungal disease that has wiped out entire populations of amphibians across the world is also affecting snake diversity — particularly among snakes that rely on frogs or their eggs...